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  • Tommy Robinson supporters are turning to Christianity, leaving the Church in a dilemma

    11/23/2025 8:48:49 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 23 replies
    BBC News ^ | 23 November 2025 | Aleem Maqbool, Catherine Wyatt
    Gareth Talbot does not necessarily believe in God, but he's started going to church. He felt compelled to do so after taking part in one of Tommy Robinson's rallies in September. "I never thought I had to choose before, but now I'm feeling like Christianity could be replaced, so that's why I feel the church needs support," the 36-year-old from Bradford says. Gareth talks about the church in England being under "threat", as he sees it, mainly from Islam. He says his concern is about the extreme elements of Islam, not the religion as a whole. He also makes claims...
  • A preacher asked me out. When I turned her down, the stalking began

    06/29/2025 9:35:52 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 58 replies
    BBC ^ | Aleem Maqbool, religion editor & Steve Swann
    Venessa Pinto, employed by the Leicester diocese of the Church of England as a lay preacher...asked him out. "I was very taken aback, because I didn't know her. And I was like, 'I'm gay, but thank you for asking.' But she asked me if it was because she was black." ... Hulme, then in his mid-twenties, was at a very happy juncture in his life. He was a poet and author, an assistant warden at the LGBT-friendly St Nicholas Church... "I'm also trans, I'd come out a number of years before, and I'd finally come to a place of full...
  • BBC has got a Muslim trying to rewrite historic Jewish Jesus from Judea

    12/17/2008 8:56:28 AM PST · by PRePublic · 6 replies · 744+ views
    BBC has got a Muslim trying to rewrite historic Jewish Jesus from Judea (attempting -- to no avail -- to "Arabize"& confuse JUDEA with Arabia...). Accompanied with a typical Islamic-bigotry's bombarding propaganda of the "bad" Israelis that dare to try fight the Arab Muslim (invaders) that terrorize the Jews (with security checkpoints). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7784227.stm BBC's Aleem Maqbool: The road to Bethlehem